F1 bosses may be about to anger Eddie Jordan as sport makes most of Drive to Survive boom

F1 pundit Eddie Jordan may be angered by the sport’s bosses who are thinking of adding another US race to the calendar. Since the release of Netflix's Drive to Survive, America's interest in the sport has skyrocketed and F1 is certainly looking to take advantage of it.

The US already has three races on the calendar, with the inaugural Las Vegas GP set to take place in November, along with next month’s Miami GP and US GP in Texas being held this October.

Speaking with Sky Sports about the future of the schedule, F1 CEO Stefano Domenicali did not rule out the possibility of taking a fourth race Stateside. "There is a lot of interest in far East Asia, more interest in the US,” he said. "But in this moment, we have three [US races] which I think is the right number for the next couple of years.

"The most important thing is that every Grand Prix has to be different in terms of personality – we want to have the city living the event, that's the magic of Formula 1."

That approach will not impress former team boss Jordan. In an interview with London Luxury Afloat, Jordan criticised the number of races now part of a hectic F1 schedule.

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“I have an issue with too many races – this will be the third or fourth in the US now," he said. "Less is more, there’s too many in the USA. Vegas is too glitzy for me. Maybe I am old fashioned but I want to go to Spa, Monza, Budapest. I even want to go to Monaco but now that isn’t even glitzy anymore compared to what’s going on here.

“There is no other sport that is able to do the miles that these people do. It is not like turning up with a football team, they are arriving with mountains and mountains of gear and race cars.”

Traditional F1 fans are on Jordan's side in the debate, and Domenicali has listened but is worried about missing out on money by placating people living in the past. "Today, the money is huge, but we need to protect the quality of the events and the sport," said Domenicali. "When 'historical' is only connected to looking behind, that is a problem.

"When 'historical' is a value, if you are focused on developing the sport for the future, it's a great value. That's our duty - to make sure that, for example Monza, it's an incredible place but they need to make sure [they in invest in] the future infrastructure, in services for the fans."

Africa is currently the only continent, other than Antarctica, not on the current F1 calendar. It lasted hosted a race in 1979, when Gilles Villeneuve won at South Africa's Kyalami circuit.

Domenicali is working on returning to that track in the near future. He said: "100 per cent, Africa is still a continent that we are working very hard. As I always said, we need to find the right partners, the right middle-term plan."